Alabama high school football playoffs: Gadsden area outlook ahead of Week 10

As the Alabama high school football season enters the final week of the regular season, plenty of Gadsden area squads have punched their postseason tickets, or know that Week 10 is all they got left.

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While some teams are still in tiebreakers — most notably, Southside is in the running for a region title and in a three-way tie. This story will deal with who has clinched and what games could matter for tiebreakers.

Gadsden area teams that have clinched

Clinched seeds are in parentheses

Class 6A: Gadsden City (1), Fort Payne (2)

Class 5A: Southside (TBD), Guntersville (TBD), Boaz (4)

Class 4A: Jacksonville (2), Cherokee County (1), Etowah (4)

Class 3A: Sylvania (1), Susan Moore (2), Geraldine (2), Piedmont (3), Hokes Bluff (4)

Class 2A: Fyffe (1), Pisgah (2), West End (4), Collinsville (4)

Class 1A: Spring Garden (2), Coosa Christian (3)

Gadsden area teams that are eliminated

Class 7A: Albertville

Class 5A: Sardis

Class 4A: Ashville

Class 3A: Westbrook Christian, Plainview, Glencoe

Class 2A: Sand Rock, Gaston

What games still matter for playoffs

The biggest game is the Southside-Etowah game, where Southside can gain a couple of wins to hit the non-region opponents win total metric a little better. Guntersville's matchup with Albertville does not carry that benefit, as the Aggies are winless.

Maxwell Donaldson covers high school sports and Jacksonville State athletics for the Gadsden Times. Find him on Twitter/X @_Max_Donaldson and contact him at MDonaldson@gannett.com.

This article originally appeared on The Gadsden Times: AHSAA playoffs: Outlook for Gadsden area teams going into Week 10